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We have to have keep Test cricket played at the international level

"I've played in a number of one-Test series' over the past few years. That's really difficult. The Ashes could disappear on the result of one Test match, and we all know a Test can change over one session."

The Women's Ashes series, which gets underway on 11 August at Wormsley, will be decided in a new multi-format series played across all three formats of the game.

England, captained by Charlotte Edwards, will be looking to regain the Urn after losing it in a one-off Test Down Under eighteen months ago.

A single Test match at Wormsley, followed by three ODIs and three twenty20 matches will comprise the series on a points based system.

The Test match will be worth six points while the ODIs and Twenty20 matches will be worth two points each.

Taylor continued: "There's two choices here. I think we have to have keep Test cricket played at the international level. We either need to play more Tests to make the decision about the Ashes viable, just on Test cricket. You have to play two or three Tests each series at least.

"Or, you go the other way, which is what's happened here, and you say that the Ashes are decided across the whole of the competition, the Test match the Twenty20s and the one-day matches."